Science-Fiction

A list of suggested titles for this summer's Reading is an Adventure Challenge: Science-Fiction.

Updated June 24, 2024
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The last human /
Bacon, Lee.
Paper Book
A funny, adventurous and poignant standalone set in a world ruled by robots.
The extraordinary colors of Auden Dare
Bethell, Zillah
Paper Book
A boy, a robot and an extraordinary adventure!
Jedi Academy
Brown, Jeffrey
Paper Book
This incredible, original story captures all the humour, awkwardness, fun and frustrations of middle school - all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles and newspaper clippings. Roan's one dream is to leave home and attend Pilot Academy like his older brother, father and...
The wild robot /
Brown, Peter,
Paper Book
A gloriously illustrated story of a robot's adventures in the wild
Cogheart
Bunzl, Peter
Paper Book
The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination. Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her...
The book that proves time travel happens
Clark, Henry
Paper Book
This never-before-seen twist on time travel adventure explores the theme of accepting those who are different--and having the courage to join them. The moment Ambrose Brody steps into a fortune-teller's tent, he is whisked into a quest that spans millennia...
Glitch
Graley, Sarah
Paper Book
From comics rising star Sarah Graley, a fresh and funny middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl who must save a virtual world... and her own!Izzy has an incredible secret -- she can enter the world of her new video game! She meets Rae, a robot who says Izzy is destined to save Dungeon City from...
George's secret key to the universe
Hawking, Lucy.
Paper Book
Discover the mysteries of physics, science and the universe with George, his new friends next door - the scientist Eric and his daughter, Annie - and a super-intelligent computer called Cosmos, which can take them to the edge of a black hole and back again. Or can it?
The iron giant :
Hughes, Ted,
Paper Book
Generations of readers have loved this story about an iron giant.
Monstrous devices /
Love, Damien,
Paper Book
'I enjoyed everything about Damien Love's debut.' Anthony Horowitz, bestselling author of the Alex Rider series 'Hugely original, exciting debut novel... a...
Jinxed
McCulloch, Amy
Paper Book
'A little bit GOLDEN COMPASS, a little bit HUNGER GAMES, and all adventure' - Amie Kaufman, NYT bestselling author of ILLUMINAE The brand-new series from the author of the magical POTION DIARIES adventures!  Lacey Chu has big dreams of working for...
The starspun web /
O'Hart, Sinead,
Paper Book
With her passion for scientific experimentation and her pet tarantula Violet, Tess de Sousa is no ordinary orphan. When a stranger shows up at Ackerbee's Home for Lost and Foundlings, claiming to be a distant relative come to adopt her, Tess hopes to find some answers to her mysterious origins. But...
House of robots /
Patterson, James,
Paper Book
In this new illustrated middle-grade series from James Patterson, an extraordinary robot signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class... and elementary school will never be the same! It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom...
Frank Einstein and the antimatter motor /
Scieszka, Jon.
Paper Book
"I never thought science could be funny . . . until I read Frank Einstein. It will have kids laughing." - Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid "Huge laughs and great science - the kind of smart, funny stuff that makes Jon Scieszka a legend." - Mac Barnett, author of Battle...

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